Archive for July, 2008
Shimon Peres on the Wall
From a 2003 interview with Johann Hari:
“Militarily, the army say it’s OK but if it is a military fence, then the line [along which it is being built] is a problem … The line is following a certain vision of the future. When that happens, it stops being a security fence and becomes a political [...]
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Tags: annexation wall, Shimon Peres, zionism
Sly Fox
The British media is hardly something to be admired, but we have nothing as ridiculous, offensive and plain evil as the propaganda-outlet that calls itself ‘Fox News’. That’s not much, as I say, but it’s something.
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Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Nas
A video published today by the B’Tselem human rights organisation shows an unarmed, handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian being shot by an Israeli soldier at very close range with a rubber-coated steel bullet (not, as some would have it, a “rubber bullet“).
The incident occured earlier this month during protests against the construction of the annexation [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Videos | 5 Comments
Tags: abuse, annexation wall, B'Tselem, Human Rights, Nil'in, non-violence, protest
A UN report (.pdf) published last week concludes that the wall Israel is constructing in the occupied West Bank is creating severe “geographical and bureaucratic hardships for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians”, “preventing and delaying Palestinians
from accessing essential services and workplaces”. Entire communities have been devastated. The densely populated Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Ram is a [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK, US | 6 Comments
Tags: annexation wall, International Law, occupation, settlements, United Nations, West Bank
Courtesy of the Irish Independent, read Kevin Myers on:
Africa:
“an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents … Africa, with its vast savannahs and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS”.
Somalia:
“Somalia, another fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts.”
Humanitarian aid:
“If his programme is successful, tens of millions of [...]
Filed under: Media, News and politics, UK | 6 Comments
Tags: Africa, Kevin Myers, Loony Watch, Racism, Somalia
Yesterday an Al Jazeera Norman Finkelstein debated former Ariel Sharon advisor Dov Weisglass on Israel’s annexation wall in the West Bank. As you’d expect, it wasn’t much of a contest.
(see here (.pdf) for more on those unfortunate “inconveniences” Weisglass keeps mentioning).
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Videos | 6 Comments
Tags: annexation wall, Dov Weisglass, International Law, Norman Finkelstein, occupation, West Bank
Hossam on the struggle in Egypt
Hossam el-Hamalawy on the extraordinary surge of militant labour activity that has been rocking Egpyt:
(via lenin)
Londoners can check Hossam out tomorrow, when he’ll be speaking at an event organised by the International Jewish Solidarity Network entitled ‘International Resistance to Zionism‘.
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Tags: Egypt, Ghazl el-Mahalla, Hossam el-Hamalawy, Marxism 2008, socialism
Israel’s abuse of journalists
Last week Mohammed Omer, a Palestinian journalist living in the Gaza Strip, was tortured by Shin Bet officials as he attempted to return home. He had left Gaza to collect the Martha Gellhorn prize for Journalism in London for his insightful and humane reporting on the effects of the Israeli siege on the impoverished [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Lebanon, Media, News and politics, Torture | 15 Comments
Tags: Fadel Shana, Free Speech, Gaza, Mohammed Omer, occupation, press freedom, siege
‘A group of West Bank settlers on Saturday beat a 31-year-old Palestinian man in the southern Hebron Hills, after having tied him to a telephone pole.
Left-wing activists later videoed a settler kicking Madahat Abu-Kirash, the victim, as he remained tied up and was surrounded by Israeli security forces. The soldiers subsequently [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Videos | 12 Comments
Tags: Hebron, IDF, occupation, settlements, settlers, Terrorism, West Bank
We can win
Progress:
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK, US | 11 Comments
Tags: "peace process", honest broker, poll, public opinion
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